The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has issued a scientific opinion identifying FDA-iRISK®, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s innovative risk-assessment tool, as “the most appropriate tool for risk ranking of microbiological hazards.” The statement comes as EFSA is developing a risk-ranking toolbox, for which FDA-iRISK is to serve as one of two central components (the other being the Burden of Communicable Diseases in Europe – BCoDE – toolkit). EFSA states that these two tools “in combination with a network of available predictive microbiology tools, databases, and information sources, can form a risk-ranking toolbox and be applied based on a ‘fit for purpose’ approach.”